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Eugène Dubois

Eugène Dubois

Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist
Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus, or "Java Man". Although hominid fossils had been found and studied before, Dubois was the... Wikipedia
Born: January 28, 1858, Eijsden, Netherlands
Died: December 16, 1940 (age 82 years), Haelen, Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Fields: Paleoanthropology, Geology